Zone 3 Fresh-Eating Apples

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The best eating apples that can take a zone 3 winter, the ones you pick off the tree and eat. Everything is listed A to Z, and the plants rated only to 3b, the warmer half of the zone (-35°F to -30°F), have a 3b tag on them.

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Honeycrisp, Zestar! and SnowSweet are crisp and sweet. Russets like Ashmead's Kernel and Golden Russet have more depth, and applecrabs like Chestnut and Kerr are great small eating apples.

On this page: Ashmead's Kernel Apple, Carroll Apple, Centennial Applecrab, Chestnut Applecrab, Cox Orange Pippin Apple, Empire Apple, Fred's Mac Apple, Golden Russet Apple, Gravenstein Apple, Honeycrisp Apple, Kerr Applecrab, Kindercrisp Apple, MN 1628 Apple, Macoun Apple, Mother Apple, Norkent Apple, Oriole Apple, Prairie Sensation Apple, Ribston Pippin Cider Apple, Snowsweet Apple, Sweet Sixteen Apple, Trailman Applecrab, Tropical Winter Apple, William's Pride Apple and Zestar! Apple.

Questions We Get

What does zone 3 mean on your scale?

On our MFTC scale, zone 3 means the coldest night you should plan for (the 1-in-30-year low) falls between -40°F and -30°F. Zone 3a runs -40°F to -35°F and zone 3b runs -35°F to -30°F. That is colder than a USDA zone 3, which is built on the average yearly low, so run your address through our cold hardiness calculator instead of going off a USDA map.